Example sentences of "thing that have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Erich Honecker gave his last big speech many people regretted the fact that there was n't a hint of sadness about all the things that had gone wrong in the past 40 years , all the changes that should have happened and never did — nor , finally , any regrets about the many people who fled the country . |
| 2 | No , he erm , I say with videos that they , they send a video over an Australian thing , this chap 's the other two and one of them had a camera and he went aboard to test pilot it and he took the all around the place round er having flown six five minutes and he paid he tried to things that had gone wrong , whatever it was and erm , he , he , he 's . |
| 3 | There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders . |
| 4 | But he was starting to lose track of the things that had made him what he was as well . |
| 5 | Hilton tells him to wait patiently in the darkness and acclimatise himself to this new existence , stripped of all the things that had made life worthwhile before . |
| 6 | All the things that had made Delhi an amusing and lively city were one by one forbidden . |
| 7 | After all — had n't one of the things that had made it so difficult to get over Tony been the fact that he 'd got off scot-free ? |
| 8 | In fact , one of the things that had pleased her about her daughter staying in London was that it kept her away from Seaton Cramer Hall . |
| 9 | Instead they were surrounded by ambiguous smells of unrecognizable growing things that had rotted and died , of living creatures that were scarcely human , hairy and fleshy . |
| 10 | I 've always ridden bikes off the road on to trails to get far into the heart of the country , but they were big , creaky , clanking old things that had to have a puncture repaired every 20 minutes . |
| 11 | This is not a book about the experience of watching them , a collection of weird scenes inside the cinema : ‘ We were chewing the fat , telling stories about peculiar things that had happened to us at the cinema , trying to top each other . |
| 12 | Recently someone came to talk to me about things that had happened to him in his childhood . |
| 13 | As a unique event , Karen could file it away in her snapshot album as one of the interesting things that had happened during her holiday in France . |
| 14 | ‘ It was a way of giving thanks to all the good things that had happened , like the album and the fact that , even though I see Cam every day . |
| 15 | We were disliked because of things that had happened in the past and we did n't need any motivation when we kept hearing that sort of talk . |
| 16 | It was more than 10 years before Serfaty could bring himself to speak and write about the terrible things that had happened to him and his colleagues . |
| 17 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
| 18 | As soon as I told her about the things that had happened , she knew . |
| 19 | We sat down and spoke about things that had happened . |
| 20 | It was funny , Graham thought ; the party seemed so long ago , but the memory was more fresh and real for him than things that had happened even just last week . |
| 21 | Not for more than a few minutes ; just time enough to look around with his eyes , around and back at things that had happened to him . |
| 22 | And in the in fact in the early days o o f o one of the things that had happened f early on was that I would do jobs on my own , and you it 's amazing how many number of one-man jobs there are . |
| 23 | I , I was surprised when I heard of sort of the things that had happened . |
| 24 | One of the things that had driven Hamish crackers was her inability to make up her mind . |
| 25 | She broke off , her face rapt as she remembered some of the things she 'd seen , some of the things that had got to her . |
| 26 | All things that had combined to make Jenna the quiet sort of person she was . |
| 27 | He had met Mr George Singleton two years ago in Petticoat Lane , at a stall that sold knick-knacks , bits and pieces , and other oddments that appealed to people with a passion for collecting things , particularly things that had belonged — or might have belonged — to a figure of history . |
| 28 | It was one of the things that had disappeared from Renascia towards the end and it gave Fenella an odd , rather out-of-balance feeling to see dawn light again . |
| 29 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 30 | She hated herself for remembering , not just that last ugly confrontation in the campagna but the things that had preceded it , the good things , starting with the fun they 'd had together and ending with that long , sweet night she 'd spent in his arms . |